Summer Institute in the Arts and Humanities

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The Summer Institute in the Arts and Humanities, created by the Undergraduate Research Program in collaboration with the Simpson Center for the Humanities, provides a unique opportunity for selected undergraduates to earn full-time, academic credit through immersion in scholarly research with accomplished scholars and peers. Bringing together four faculty and twenty students in plenary, seminar and tutorial-style sessions, the Institute encourages mutual learning as well as independent thought

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The horse has been recognized as an integral part of the Yakama people‘s culture for the better part of the last two centuries. However, in recent decades, the wild horse population on Yakama tribal lands has significantly ...

Pulling Together: Indigeneity, Masculinity and AllyshipWith the colonization of the Americas, traditional gender relations were thrown out of balance as communities were displaced and patriarchal social structures were ...

This project explores the complicated and distinctive relationship that Native veterans had with the U.S. military-industrial complex during and after the Vietnam War. Although veterans of all racial groups were forced to ...

In contemporary struggles for Indigenous sovereignty, language use is a consistent point of contention. The technology of writing is currently being used as a weapon to erase Indigenous peoples from dominant narratives and ...

There is a revolution against oppression occurring on this side of the Cascade Mountains. An epic struggle for farmworker justice in Seattle’s backyard. Indigenous Mexican farmworkers from Western Washington’s Whatcom and ...

As awareness of the environmental impacts caused by capitalist driven industries such as fossil fuel extraction continues to grow, so do the number of communities engaging in protest against these industries. The shared ...

At it’s passage in 1971, the Alaska Native Claims and Settlement Act (ANCSA), was viewed as the most liberal and generous settlement ever achieved between the United States government and an Indigenous peoples. Forty-three ...

Beginning in April of 2013 I began apprenticing and collecting ethnographic data about a topic of deep personal significance, the indigenous martial arts of the Philippines as practiced by Filipino Americans in Seattle. ...

Food sovereignty is defined as a universal right to have control over the source and content of one’s sustenance. The principles of food sovereignty are integral to Canadian First Nations and Native American tribe’s health, ...

The word "indigenous" continues to evoke discussion and scholarship throughout the ages as a highly culturally and politically loaded term that has gained global importance. The Islands of Mauritius, Réunion and the ...

This paper contributes to the literature of Filipino indigeneity in the diaspora, by examining the participation of Filipino American students on the University of Washington campus from the 2013 Philippine Culture Night, ...

Through a critical engagement with the television show Jonah from Tonga, in this paper I attempt to address representations of indigeneity in popular culture in popular culture. Created by Australian comedian Chris Lilley, ...